Viewers

Second Life: Render Speed Tricks

2015/05/27 by Nalates Urriah

Simon Linden gave out a note card at Tuesday’s Server-Scripting user group meeting in Second Life™. It gives us the Debug Settings we can change to improve performance at events with lots of avatars.

Work hard in silence, let success make the noise by NOeditiON™, on Flickr

To get to the viewer’s Debug Settings you need to have enabled the Advanced menu. There are a couple of ways to do that. In the SL Viewer open Preferences – top menu: Me->Preferences then select the Advanced tab. Enable Show Advanced Menu. This will reveal ADVANCED in the top menu. Click Advanced->Show Debug Settings.

Black Dragon Viewer Updated Week 22

2015/05/26 by Nalates Urriah

Inara is covering the update of the Black Dragon Viewer for Second Life™, version 2.4.2.5. See: Black Dragon 2.4.2.5: snapshot floater and cinematic camera. The effect of the new Cinematic/Head Tracking Camera is shown in the video. I would have to play with the camera to see if I like it and think it useable, … Read more

Second Life: RLV 2.9.10 Released

2015/05/19 by Nalates Urriah

Marine Kelley has announced the release of a new version of the RLViewer. It has a couple of bug fixes for problems found in the previous version. See: RLV 2.9.10.

Second Life: Alchemy Viewer Held Hostage

2015/05/19 by Nalates Urriah

If you have been wondering where the next release of the Alchemy Viewer is, we now know: Fallon, Nevada. The intrigue is dark and the team could use your help… See Cinder Roxley’s plea for help: We’re Not Dead OK… it isn’t all that dark or desperate nor was the NSA involved, but it is … Read more

Second Life News Week 20

2015/05/17 by Nalates Urriah

From the Third Party Viewer UG meeting we get a little news. It was another short meeting.

What The......! — What The……! – by Simone Landers, on Flickr

RC Second Life Big Bird Viewer version 3.7.29.301361 – This viewer has fixes for some attachment-related issues. The Lindens are not anticipating any difficulties with this viewer, so this one should be moving to promotion as the default viewer soon.

There are some server side fixes for attachment problems that are in the works.

Second Life Viewer: RC Second Life Big Bird Viewer version 3.7.29.301361

2015/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

This viewer was promoted from a Project Viewer to an RC viewer today. This viewer has fixes for some attachment-related issues, particularly when multiple attachments are added or removed at the same time. It also has enhanced logging, so your SecondLife.log file will have some additional lines related to avatar state in general and attachments … Read more